To riff off of Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the UN earlier this year, a crucial part of The Curse got lifted last night from the Middle East. Iran has spent more than 40 years constructing the “Shiite Crescent” in the region in an attempt at encirclement of Israel and the Sunni Arab states in the region, with Hamas and Hezbollah as its proxy armies and Syria as its puppet state and main lines of communication.
Those plans are in utter ruin today. The collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Damascus has cut Iran off from its proxy armies and likely ended any influence Tehran will ever have in the region. Hezbollah has spent the last couple of days attempting to salvage its own operations, and now that has apparently turned into a bug-out:
Lebanese armed group Hezbollah says it has withdrawn all of its forces from Syria, two Lebanese security sources…
